Translation
Patent to Egbert van Borsum
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Egbert van Borsum a lot lying on Long Island at the ferry beginning at an oak tree near the division line of Cornelis Potter; the distance from there to the shore being in breadth 40 feet Rhenish measure; and further to the oak tree 40 feet in breadth also Rhenish measure, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 28 August 1654.
References
Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. GG, HH & II, Land Papers, 1630-1664 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1980).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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